Scathing Review of Media Anti-Trump Bias

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As the Democrats had no argument for reelection on their merits, their only campaign was a personal denigration of Mr. Trump. It was the nastiest campaign of modern American history, but also the most entertaining. Mr. Trump responded to the Billy Bush tape by trotting out at the second debate three women who signed affidavits that Bill Clinton had sexually assaulted them. In general, the press hyped the anti-Trump onslaught and under-reported his counterattacks, but he made up for it with his antic activity in the social media and the heavy support he enjoyed on the talk-show circuit.

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The tactics of the Democrats and their fellow travelers in the national press are to invent and amplify false stories, “fake news” such as the golden-shower fraud (the allegation that Trump organized a group of prostitutes to urinate in a bed in a Moscow hotel because the Obamas had once slept in it) and the fabrication that Trump had removed the bust of Martin Luther King from the Oval Office.

Each incident of the slightest potential to embarrass the administration is instantly splashed across the media to inflict as much damage as possible on the president, and immobilize him before he can enact his reforms and assume a stature in the political workings of the country that restores to the presidency the authority it has enjoyed when the occupant was generally judged to be effective and competent. These are conditions that, apart from a brief consolidation of support around George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks and a short interlude with the incoming Obama, have not existed since the first Clinton term.

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The travel executive order was sloppily formulated, but the overreaction to it, the violence at Berkeley, mobbing of airports, demonstrations all over the Western world, Senator Schumer sniveling and saying that the Statue of Liberty was weeping too, was insane. Democratic judge-shopping quickly found West Coast judges happy to exceed their jurisdictions and purport to usurp the president’s powers. But the hoped-for result, that Mr. Trump would blow up and ignore them, enabling ululations of impeachment to arise, were frustrated.

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Messrs. Henninger and Brooks, and most of the rest of the press miss the point. If Mr. Trump can hold the Republicans who are resentful of him personally, and produce his health-care and tax reforms promptly and as promised, they will pass and the country will have turned the corner away from 20 years of generally inept government. Mr. Trump has done nothing but win, while the laughter of his detractors slowly turned to cold terror, thinly disguised as moral outrage and patriotic sensibility, accented by the misplaced snobbery of the highbrow Right.

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The GOPe has no none nada love for the president. That will be a factor ongoing.

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Mr. Trump responded to the Billy Bush tape by trotting out at the second debate three women who signed affidavits that Bill Clinton had sexually assaulted them. In general, the press hyped the anti-Trump onslaught and under-reported his counterattacks,

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Look at the trouble Bill Clinton got into with something that was totally unimportant, and they tried to impeach him, which was nonsense,

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Trump also suggested Clinton was a “victim” to an unattractive group of female accusers. He told The New York Times in September 1999 that Americans might have been more forgiving toward the president about his actions with Lewinsky if he had cheated on his wife “with a really beautiful woman of sophistication.

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Parading alleged victims of a person who wasn't running for president,

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What is utterly astonishing about how richly, as a group it deserves to be despised.

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